2020 The Citadel Bulldogs football team

2020 Southern Conference football standings
	$ – Conference champion; ^ – FCS playoff participant; † – Chattanooga and Wofford opted out of the remainder of the spring season on March 29 and April 5, 2021, respectively.; Rankings from STATS Poll

2020 The Citadel Bulldogs football
2020 The Citadel Bulldogs football
Conference	Southern Conference
2020 record	2–10 (2–6 SoCon)
Head coach	Brent Thompson (5th season);
Home stadium	Johnson Hagood Stadium; (capacity: 11,332)
	Seasons ← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina in the 2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The Bulldogs were led by fifth-year head coach Brent Thompson and played their home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium. They competed as members of the Southern Conference (SoCon).

Previous season[]

The Bulldogs finished the 2019 season 6–6, 4–4 in SoCon play to finish in a three-way tie for fourth place.

The Citadel had games scheduled against Elon and Charleston Southern, which were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date	Time	Opponent	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 12	7:00 p.m.	at South Florida*	Raymond James Stadium Tampa, FL	ESPNU	L 6–27	0
September 19	4:00 p.m.	at No. 1 (FBS) Clemson*	Memorial Stadium Clemson, SC	ACCN	L 0–49	18,609
September 26	1:00 p.m.	Eastern Kentucky*	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	ESPN+	L 14–37	3,081
October 10	1:30 p.m.	at Army*	Michie Stadium West Point, NY	CBSSN	L 9–14	5,344
February 27	3:30 p.m.	at Mercer	Moye Complex Macon, GA	ESPN+	L 28–42
March 6	1:00 p.m.	No. 18 Chattanooga	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	ESPN+	L 24–25
March 13	1:00 p.m.	at Western Carolina	E. J. Whitmire Stadium Cullowhee, NC	ESPN+	L 14–21
March 20	1:00 p.m.	East Tennessee State	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	ESPN+	L 21–28
March 27	1:00 p.m.	Samford	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC	ESPN+	L 7–55
April 3	1:00 p.m.	at Wofford	Gibbs Stadium Spartanburg, SC (rivalry)	ESPN+	W 28–24
April 10	1:00 p.m.	Furman	Johnson Hagood Stadium Charleston, SC (rivalry)	ESPN+	W 26–7
April 17	1:30 p.m.	at No. 15 VMI	Alumni Memorial Field Lexington, VA (Military Classic of the South)	ESPN+	L 17–31
*Non-conference game Homecoming Rankings from STATS Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	3	3	0	0	6
Bulls	7	13	0	7	27

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	0	0	0	0	0
No. 1 (FBS) Tigers	28	21	0	0	49

	1	2	3	4	Total
Colonels	13	10	7	7	37
Bulldogs	7	7	0	0	14

	1	2	3	4	Total
Bulldogs	3	0	0	6	9
Black Knights	0	7	7	0	14

^ "2020 The Citadel Football Schedule". The Citadel Athletic Department. Retrieved September 9, 2020.

v t The Citadel Bulldogs football
Venues	College Park Stadium (c. 1905–1926) Johnson Hagood Stadium (original) (1927–1947) Johnson Hagood Stadium (1948–present)
Bowls & rivalries	1960 Tangerine Bowl Furman Military Classic of the South (VMI) Wofford
Culture & lore	The Regimental Band and Pipes
People	Head coaches NFL draftees
Seasons	1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

2020 Southern Conference football standings
v t	Conf				Overall
Team		W		L		W		L
No. 11 VMI $^		6	–	1		6	–	2
No. 22 East Tennessee State		4	–	1		4	–	1
Chattanooga†		3	–	1		3	–	2
Mercer		5	–	3		5	–	6
Samford		4	–	3		4	–	3
Furman		3	–	4		3	–	4
Wofford†		1	–	4		1	–	4
The Citadel		2	–	6		2	–	10
Western Carolina		1	–	5		1	–	8

$ – Conference champion ^ – FCS playoff participant † – Chattanooga and Wofford opted out of the remainder of the spring season on March 29 and April 5, 2021, respectively. Rankings from STATS Poll